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Hello! Welcome to my blog. My name is Marianne and I live in Melbourne with my husband and our very fluffy cat, Babycat. (Who, at 7 years old, is hardly a kitten anymore but she will always be our baby!) I grew up in London and moved to Melbourne aged 22 for adventure and for love, which turned out to be a great idea as we are now happily married. I love vintage, especially the 1930s to the 1950s, and can skip happily over some of the 1960s to enjoy lots of that beautiful and otherworldly 1970s stuff. Here I write about my life in Melbourne and the things that interest me: clothes (especially of the vintage kind), beauty, makeup, food, interiors, travel, books, films (old ones please), going out, staying home, cocktails in bars, dinners in restaurants, breakfasts in cafes, walking in parks, biking down backstreets, taking photographs in conspicuous places, drinking coffee in bed, my endless love of platform shoes, and sometimes cats, too.

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Monday, 9 February 2009

the last stretch of summer

Wow, I have been away for a while... we have had some very hot weather here in Melbs (46C four days in a row, 47C Saturday, etc – hotter than it's ever been here) and it has been too hot for me. Summer elsewhere might be a pleasant thing – getting outside, wearing pretty dresses – but when it's this hot I don't enjoy it at all, and the last thing I want to do is stand outside trying to take photos...

However, what has been a bit uncomfortable for me has been a tragedy for many, many people across Victoria. The bushfires that took hold here on Saturday have been absolutely devastating. I plan to get back to posting regularly again this week, and first I wanted to acknowledge this horrific and tragic situation. We are already learning of friends of friends who have been directly affected by the fire. My thoughts are with everyone involved, and I can only hope that the worst of it is over.

the worst thing is that unlike disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, bombings etc, this has been going on for days - every morning we wake up to more fires, more towns wiped out, more people dead. when will it end?